GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J.

( 1 ) AS the parties i to all these petitions are one and the same and the contentions raised by them are common, all these Transfer C. M. Ps. are disposed of by common judgment. For the sake of convenienpe, the parties herein are referred to as they are arrayed in Transfer C. M. P. No. 463 of 2000, which is filed by wife.

( 2 ) TRANSFER C. M. P. No. 463 of 2000 is filed by the petitioner (wife) seeking transfer of O. P. No. 416 of 2000 from the file of the Family Court, Vijayawada, to the Senior civil Judge g Court, Vizianagaram.

( 3 ) WHILE so, Transfer C. M. P. No. 1 of 2002 is filed by the respondent (husband) seeking transfer of O. P. No. 15 of 2001 from the file of the Senior Civil Judge s Couft, vizianagaram, to the Family Court, vijayawada. Similarly, Transfer C. M. P. No. 4352 of 2002 is filed by the husband seeking transfer of M. C. No. 62 of 2000 from the file of Additional Judicial I Class Magistrate s Court, Vizianagaram, to the Family court, Vijayawada.

( 4 ) THE facts which led to the filing of these petitions are as follows: Both the petitioner and the respondent hail from angaluru1 village in Krishna District. The marriage between them took place on 2-10-1989 as per Hindu religious rites and caste custom and the marriage was also consummated. Soon after the marriage, the respondent was taken to Vizianagaram by the father of the petitioner to work in his Tannery industry located at Vizianagaram. Two children were born-to them during their wedlock. Thereafter, it is alleged by the petitioner that, the respondent (husband) became addicted to drinking and used to; quarrel with her in drunken state. While so, in the year 1993 the parties have shifted to Madras. On 10-7-1996, the respondent met with a road accident in Madras and he was hospitalized for several months owing to multiple and compound fractures to his right leg, hand and kneecap etc. According to the respond ent, the petitioner did not even care to visit him during the period of his hpspitalization, even after the completion of the treatment; his leg with fractured bones its knee and ankle are still dysfunctional and in spite of all the above travails, the petitioner did not bother to see the respondent. According to the respondent, the petitioner left the matrlmonlal house in october 1997. The respondent thereafter came back to vijayawada from Madras and Is presently residing in Vijayawada while the petitioner is residing with her parents at Vizianagaram.

( 5 ) CONSEQUENT upon the estrangement of the parties the respondent (husband) filed o. P. No. 416 of 2000 before the Family court, Vijayawada, seeking decree of divorce. While so, the petitioner filed M. C. No. 62 of 2000 on the file of the Court of additional Judicial I Class Magistrate, vizianagaram, under Section 125, Cr. P. C. seeking maintenance. She also filed O. P. No. 15 of 2001 on the file of the Court of senior Civil Judge, Vizianagaram, seeking restitution of conjugal rites.

( 6 ) IT is submitted by Mr. V. S. R. Anjaneyulu, learned counsel for the petitioner (wife), that the petitioner s father is an old man aged about 85 years; her mother is no more while her brother is a resident of hyderabad and all her sisters who are married have settled elsewhere. Thus, there is no male companion to look after the welfare of the petitioner and her father. Under these circumstances, the petitioner is facing lot of inconvenience to go all the way from vizianagaram to Vijayawada for the purpose of defending the O. P. filed by the respondent i. e. , O. P. 416 of 2000 at Family Court vijayawada. Therefore, the petitioner seeks transfer of the said O. P, i. e. , O. P. No. 416 of 2000 from Family Court Vijayawada to the senior Civil Judge s Court, Vizianagaram, where the O. P. filed by her for restitution of conjugal rights is pending.

( 7 ) ON the other hand, Sri K. V. Bhanu prasad, learned counsel for the respondent, submitted that with physical disablement it has become virtually

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